"Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it." -from Robinson CrusoeRobinson Crusoe, probably one of the most famous books through-out the world, is the first Engiish novel and brought a huge success with it the first time it was pubiished in 1719.Daniel Defoe achieved literary immortaiity with Robinson Crusoe, in which he both challenged the social, economic and political aspects of England and created an absence of society, on an island in solitude.The rest is leftfor Virginia VVoolf to say: "Thus, Defoe persuades usto see remote isiands and the solitude of the human şoul. By believing fixedly in the solidity of the plot and its earthiness, he has subdued every other element to his design and has roped a whole universe into harmony."
"Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it." -from Robinson CrusoeRobinson Crusoe, probably one of the most famous books through-out the world, is the first Engiish novel and brought a huge success with it the first time it was pubiished in 1719.Daniel Defoe achieved literary immortaiity with Robinson Crusoe, in which he both challenged the social, economic and political aspects of England and created an absence of society, on an island in solitude.The rest is leftfor Virginia VVoolf to say: "Thus, Defoe persuades usto see remote isiands and the solitude of the human şoul. By believing fixedly in the solidity of the plot and its earthiness, he has subdued every other element to his design and has roped a whole universe into harmony."